Assistant Budget Director Bowling Green State University Salary: Depends on Qualifications Job Type: Full-Time Division: Finance & Administration Opening Date: 01/13/2025 Location: Main Campus (BG), OH Job Number: BGSU00665 Department: Finance & Administration Closing: 2/4/2025 11:59 PM Eastern Summary The Assistant Budget Director works under the guidance of the Vice President for Finance and Administration to support the Director in developing the University's Educational and General (E&G) budgets. Additionally, the role assists divisional and auxiliary budget officers in preparing their respective budgets. This position will also monitors budget trends; analyzes and prepares various financial reports to provide to senior management for use in decision making; prepares year-end reports to assist in closing out of E & G, auxiliary, designated, and plant fund accounts and budgets. Essential Functions • Work with departments and management to assist in the creation of annual budgets • Assist Budget Administrators with any budget related questions or concerns that they have. This could include one-on-one training, research to answer specific questions, providing updates at bi-monthly Budget Administrator meetings, and communicating issues or changes that affect their processes. • Responsible for completing the annual carry forward process. This involves running reports, reviewing for accuracy, making any necessary adjustments, reconciling to fund balances, and creating budget journals to post in FMS. • Manage the annual budget load process into FMS: • Create and distribute reports used by departments to submit their annual budget load. • Review the submitted load sheets for accuracy and compare to the budget book to ensure compliance with the budget approved by the Board of Trustees. • Monitor and track all reports distributed and submitted by departments to ensure that they are received, reviewed, approved, and loaded into FMS during the first period of the fiscal year. • Create and import the budget journals in FMS. • Assemble the Budget Book which is presented to the Board of Trustees annually for approval. This book contains the annual proposed budgets for the entire University for the upcoming fiscal year. • Manage the Adaptive software monthly process of updating all active personnel and vacant positions and reconciling current funding to budgeted funds in FMS. Disseminate monthly reports to various financial directors and meet with those departments with heaving activity in hiring, resignations, retirements to ensure appropriate funding needed for hiring decisions. • Special projects as assigned throughout the year. Minimum Qualifications The following Degree is required: • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required. Degree must be conferred at time of application. The following Degree and Licensure is preferred: • Masters Degree and CPA The following Experience is required: • 3 years of accounting/finance analysis Additional Information Knowledge, Skills, Abilities • Higher Education experience • Prior experience with large enterprise systems with demonstrated understanding of the interconnectivity of budget and accounting (general ledger) modules. • Evidence of a solid understanding of the principles of fund accounting and generally accepted accounting principles. • Excellent organization skills required to manage a diverse set of responsibilities, projects, and ad hoc requests. • Evidence of broad experience, knowledge, and skills creating and manipulating spreadsheets and working with large amounts of data. • Ability to develop models for a variety of financial analyses (simple to complex) and to present results in a manner suitable for the receivi